Hello Friends
About Web Browsers.
- Have you tried Midori?
Any experience is welcomed
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I only poked at it a bit a few years ago when it was provided as a default for CentOS or some other distribution. I forget which. It seemed OK but didn’t support some trendy features Firefox and Chrome did.
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Same here…
Haven’t tried it for a long time!
Very similar to Floorp.
Think their Astiango search engine was dysfunctional, or rather nonfunctional at the time. 
Noticed they now have a forum. 
Time to take it out for a spin…
Just installed on Samsung Android phone:
-settings took a bit to show up.
-Bing is set as default.
-odd that their AstianGo search engine is not listed (switched to DDG).
-seems faster than Firefox beta (will keep on testing).
-works with a bunch of extensions (only have uBlock and Omnivore for now).
Running over now to install desktop for Mint…
Just installed, and enabled as default (after reboot only).
Curious as to what are all the benefits or aspects of subscribing to a user account on AstianGo (which btw, seems to be up and running fine now)?
And if this search engine is independent or based on Bing or whatever…
Seems to be privacy oriented:
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This is going to sound a bit silly, but there’s a theme which for whatever reason, doesn’t behave the same way on Firefox, Waterfox, Floorp or Midori.
On Midori it performs as expected as well as without a contour on open tab:
Being a dark theme fan, it is a huge plus!
Dark Space Full transparent theme:
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I like transparency in terminal windows.
but
it interferes with screenshots
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Yup.
There is one annoyance recall having with Midori (Floorp too), it’s the “unloading” of open tabs while browsing on opened one. Sometimes, previously opened ones take longer to re-load than simply typing the url again.
Don’t know if there’s an option to remove this “unloading” feature.
Brave does.
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Thanks to all for the replies
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Have you tried Midori?
If so, what are your impressions?
Regardless, glad you posted.
Starting to appreciate it. 
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Hello Daniel
No yet, it is in my radar (or “todo”) 
Thanks!
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Having a forum in English (even if rather quiet there) is an advantage over Floorp, which AFAIK, is still non-existent there.
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Greetings
I have been using Midori 11.3.3 loaded from a deb file for about 12 months. I have no problem with unloading of open tabs, I have 8 tabs open and any one of them opens without delay. My use is simple just browsing! It has a control panel on the side giving immediate access to history, bookmarks, astian cloud, downloads etc, much easy than finding bookmarks side panel in FF. Not much else to say - just try a recent version.
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Thanks for that link … 
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Hello
in what OS was installed that .deb file? In other network was shared this link
https://help.astian.org/showthread.php?tid=2
Again to all - thanks for the polite feedback
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Greetings @Manuel_Jordan
It is installed in Desktop: Xfce 4.16.0 Distro: Ubuntu 22.04.4 and Duckduckgo.
It does all I want ie browsing, runs videos Facebook & iPlayer etc. I have not tried astian search engine and other themes.
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Shorts are quick way to access history and bookmarks too.
A question of preferences.
The issue about multiple tabs opened with memory unloaded for non-active ones, i have seen on Floorp and Waterfox too. Maybe it depends on how long the opened tabs have been sitting there? Or perhaps, a conflict with various extensions installed? Or… just in my head. 
Might not be the best descriptive words, but then again, i’ve never have been good at doing that kind of work.
p.s. have experienced with a few themes, the absence of letters in drop-down menu on right-click of closing left or right tabs, while closing other tabs remains intact. Unfortunately unable to take screenshot.
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Thanks @Clivegg12 for the feedback. I will try it soon as I can in a controlled environment through VirtualBox for Ubuntu - I wrote to you the original question in case for other OS such as Mint was used.
@danielson interesting your perspective … your answers were important for the mention of other web browsers to consider too
To all members I wrote a similar question in Linux PeppermintOS at sourceforge about this Web Browser as follows:
Now with the permission of one of the official developers - Peppermint OS - of that pretty cool Linux distribution, for your consideration:
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Some things to think about, I was looking into this awhile back…
So…Midori web browser is no longer supported or included in the official Debian repositories.
Here are the key details:
- Midori was removed from Debian repositories in 2017 due to security concerns.
- The final stable release of Midori was still using the unmaintained WebKit1 instead of webkit2gtk, which resulted in numerous known security vulnerabilities.
- The old version of Midori (up to version 7.x) is no longer maintained or updated.
- New development on Midori has since been revived by a company called Astian Inc., but it is now a completely different browser:
It is now based on the Gecko engine (used by Firefox) instead of WebKit.
This new version is not related to the old Midori that was in Debian repositories.
It can be downloaded from the Astian website, but is not part of the official Debian packages.
Now who is Astian? -
Astian develops applications focused on privacy and security, including:
- Midori Browser: A web browser that claims to prioritize user privacy
- Astian Cloud: A cloud storage and productivity suite
- Other apps for Windows, Linux, Mac, Android and iOS
Astian is a US-based company, incorporated in Delaware, but they emphasize their commitment to privacy and EU data protection regulations.
You can read their TOS here
My point is its not the Opensource Midori used to be, Its up to you if you want to use newer midori
Hope that helps
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Which begs the question…
Mozilla gets most of its funding from the alphabet company.
How much can it be trusted?
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That statement is ambiguous.
Is Midori not now open source software?
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Greetings
It looks as though Midori is open source, see review of browsers
which lists Midori and suggested installing as snap, I install from deb available from github see below.
Version 11.4 has just been released and is available from
The Midori website only offers 11.3.3 at the moment.
It seems that Midori has changed a lot since some of the previous statements were relevant. I find that Midori suits me but I would not say it is the best, that is for others to find out.
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